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Two Weeks in Japan 2011 - Kyoto Postcard
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| Delirious Osaka | Grave Visit | Kasama Potter | |
| Post-Wake Snack | Fondue Night | Kasama lodging | |
| Funeral | Tsukiji,Tokyo | Kasama Art Museum | |
| Kibukawa | Asakusa | Kasama town | |
| Kyoto Temples | Tori no Ichi | Live Music, Tokyo | |
| Ryoanji | Dinner in Rappongi | Fugu Dinner | |
| Ninnaji | Kasama - Our hosts | Oops | |
| Kyoto Streets | Kasama stonecarver | ||
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Delirious Osaka
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391 In a Shinsaibashi alley a lively, handcrafted account of this neighborhood's history
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Snack and social time after the wake of Hideo Mori
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393 _11Nov08-nihon_0709a Toshiko
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Funeral of Hideo Mori
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402 _11Nov08-nihon_1932 children and immediate family
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403 _11Nov08-nihon_1934
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404 _11Nov08-nihon_1935 a gaijin relative
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408 _11Nov08-nihon_1937a the senior relatives
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409 _11Nov08-nihon_1940
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410 _11Nov08-nihon_1959
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411 _11Nov08-nihon_2004
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414 _11Nov08-nihon_2012
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416 _11Nov08-nihon_2015
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Kibukawa
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422 _11Nov09-Bnihon_1820 Tenri temple under construction
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425 _11Nov09-nihon_0341 Sensational welcome. The ancient kitchen tranformed into sushi bar.
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423 _11Nov09-nihon_0336a This evening's guest sushi master.
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437 _11Nov09-nihon_0458 Nabe
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437 _11Nov09-nihon_0458a The blowtorch trick
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447 Garden detail - unexpected use of stone.
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Kyoto - Kinkakuji, Golden Pavilion, and Neighboring
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447 _11Nov10-Bnihon_1900
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447 _11Nov10-Bnihon_1900a Gutter detail
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450 _11Nov10-Bnihon_2019
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Kyoto - Ryoanji
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447 _11Nov10-Bnihon_1956
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448 _11Nov10-Bnihon_1956a
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458 _11Nov10-nihon_2039 Ryoanji
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Kyoto - Ninnaji
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Pleasures along Kyoto Streets
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454 _11Nov10-nihon_0226 The temple in the shopping arcade1
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472 Akemi's favorite Kyoto tea shop
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Grave Visit
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Fondue Night
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Tsukiji,Tokyo - soon to be MOVED. See it now.
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486 _11Nov13-nihon_2128 This lady has been cooking tempera in her shop for probably 60 years.
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489 Lunchtime, when crowds from neighboring Ginza flow in.
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Asakusa Streets
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505 The familiar main pedestrian walk, home to 1000 shop booths.
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506 Temple in foreground, "Skytree" in background
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Tori no Ichi festival, Tokyo's largest festival
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517 Street vendors are preparing for a crowd five times this intense, a couple hours from now.
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522 _11Nov14-nihon_0027a Welcome!
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524 "Good fortune" rakes for sale. Buying a new rake is the object of coming to the festival.
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525 Huge crowd waits for their turn to ring the bells
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529 _11Nov14-nihon_0117 This details the elements of the good-fortune rake. Old woodblock prints show the vintage rakes of that time.
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532 Akemi's friend, a designer for the temple, asks me to verify the English explanation.
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Dinner in Roppongi
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535 50 year friendship.
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Our hosts in Kasama, the Yasoshima family, Yaeko, Masaki, Kaito
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568 In the plastic bag on the table, the stonecarving tools Bruce bought.
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Kasama stonecarver, Kaito
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508 Bruce's lesson in Japanese stonecarving methods.
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508 Block of granite neatly sliced, in about five minutes.
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508 Even the hammers are completely different from ordinary hammers. And the handles are not oak but a hard but flexible wood.
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509 The surface following a couple minutes application of the smoothing hammer.
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563 Kaito surfaces my new tools so they will perform properly.
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Kasama master potter, Masaki
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513 A "kick", not electic, potter's wheel.
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558 The hill climbing kiln example (at pottery museum).
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560 The family kiln, shattered by the earthquake.
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Kasama lodging
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569 "Sky Lodge" interior
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571 "Sky Lodge" from where we saw the sun rise from the Pacific.
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542 Stonecarvers make things like this for FUN.
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542 Early morning walk to the shrine.
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543 Mochi pounding: said to represent male and female principles in action.
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545 The meeting place of the 13 Tengus
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547 These are steep stairs. We did not take this route. A very old lady pilgrim is climbing.
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547 That's a heck of a slide.
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548 Lovely, and cold, morning.
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546 You can see the Pacific. And the nuclear plant.
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Kasama Art Museum - the Palette exhibit
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Kasama town
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551 Fall chrysanthramum craft
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552 Nihonjin acting like Nihonjin
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553 More chrysanthramum craft
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553 THAT'S how to do an arbor.
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554 A sake maker, with sugitama where it belongs.
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555 Preparing to begin a new batch
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557 Earthquake damage at the sake maker
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575 More chrysanthramum craft
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Live Music in Tokyo - Jazz by a Korean band, Yutaka Shina Trio
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578 Park Raon on vocals, adept at skat, her own style.
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Fugu Dinner on the last night
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Oops
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390 Wasn't this halloween?
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